You need to be an absolute psychopath to film something like this and publish it for clicks:
Everything is for sale with these people. Everything is monetized. The guy is now monetizing the abortion with maniacal intensity. To describes himself as and his wife as “two people grieving the loss of their unborn child.” It’s downright scary how devoid of all decency and morality these mega popular influencers can be.
“Everything is for sale with these people. Everything is monetized”
It’s not pretty (wild understatement) but the culture has been headed that way at sonic boom speed for decades…
One aspect of neoliberalism is the needed to turn every human interaction into an occasion for monetization.
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Maybe that’s why people confuse neoliberalism and Marxism. Marxism also believes that markets are everywhere, but there is a very important difference. For Marxism, “markets in everything” is a bad thing. That should not be. For neoliberalism, it’s amazing and yippee!! The goal of Marxism is “markets nowhere”. I disagree with that goal. I think that capitalism is great. Markets are great, but only when they are limited to the actual markets. I believe that marketizing every human endeavour, marketizing human beings themselves, our feelings, our emotions, our relationships is a terrible idea. The non-neoliberal capitalism existed; it’s not my fantasy. It was very successful. It worked together with the nation-state, and it worked very well. It had defects, and pretty big ones, but that’s ok. That’s the nature of human existence. Nothing is perfect. Capitalism is love of the markets, like a wine connoisseur loves wine. Neoliberalism is love of the markets, like a raging alcoholic loves wine. Everything becomes shit when it is taken to an extreme. Neoliberalism always reaches for the extreme of the extreme. That’s why the politics that it brings in is also extremist.
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“capitalism is great. Markets are great, but only when they are limited to the actual markets”
Preaching to the choir, you are.
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That’s a horrible story on multiple levels. Also, chances are the baby did not have a Down Syndrome. Just recently I spoke to a mother who was told her child was going to have Downs, he is perfectly fine. How many such babies are aborted?
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Especially at such an extremely early stage, there is an enormous amount of false positives. Medicine is not perfect. Doctors tried to determine my baby’s weight three days before I gave birth. They were off by almost 4 lb. The baby was a little over eight, and they thought that it was four and a half. And this is right on the eve of the actual birth. Somebody needs to tell people not to take these early diagnoses like they are 100% correct.
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A relative got scared by her doc into an induced labor a month premature because “the baby is huge” based on ultrasound.
Baby weighed six pounds.
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“monetizing the abortion with maniacal intensity”
High likelihood the story was fake…
FYI only (I have no intention of examining their content enough to make my own decision):
https://x.com/BrianEastwoodx/status/2063238306951823686
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I also thought that we have no way of knowing whether there was actually a diagnosis or if the story is invented for clicks. It’s disturbing because this guy seems to be popular, so people must trust him.
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Let us hope it was an engagement ploy. Of all the options, that’s the least awful.
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“hope it was an engagement ploy”
IINM some film was made when she was supposed to be several months pregnant in a tight top and no bump at all… so I’m leaning that way.
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Lying for money is a lesser evil than killing your kid. I hope it’s that.
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